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Posted by: Aidenag 1 year, 9 months agoBill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama.
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Hobe
April 26, 2008, 10:02 a.m.Bill Moyers Interview With Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Does Jeremiah really represent a Religion?
What a Disgrace...
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mesodude
April 26, 2008, 8:35 p.m.You're right...I was gonna vote for Obama but I guess I'll vote instead for John McCain--the guy who hates the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Yeah...That is just what I'll do. Thanks for helping me narrow down my choices, daystar. ;-P
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Howtogo
April 26, 2008, 11:34 a.m.Come on Moyer, you never once asked Rev. Wright what he meant by "they are wrong about what I said." Anyone that has seen or heard this racist pastor's video's known what he said. It is mind boggling to me why this racist is still spouting off things that has and will continue to hurt Obama's chances for election (primary & main election).
Moyer is a true lefty and would never confront any one or anything that could hurt the extreme left point of view. Rev. Wright knew he was in a safe area for this interview.
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bubba2
April 26, 2008, 12:14 p.m.Did any of you WATCH the interview or READ the transcript?
Moyers DID ask Wright what he meant by "they are wrong about what I said".
Also, they aired a significant amount of the sermon from which the soundbites were grabbed, and the context of ALL of what he said does NOT match with how those soundbites were portrayed.
As usual, you take at FACE value what some right-wing pundit says about what someone ELSE said and you don't bother to evaluate all of the facts.
The "disgrace" is the rush to label someone without ever really knowing who or what they are, or even ATTEMPTING to do so.
And the only "cat out of the bag" is your blatant BLINDERS-ON hatred and bias of anyone that the right-wing talking-heads ridicule or bash and do so with very LITTLE fact or documentation to back up their attacks.
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hamy
April 26, 2008, 1:43 p.m.I am sorry to be the one to say this, but most of what Wright talks about in his sermons is true. The government puts far more black Americans in jail than white Americans for the same crimes. Crack cocaine was pushed on the lowest economic classes which typically are black. The sentence is far less for powdered coke than crack. These are examples of the inherent racism in our government.
He's not wrong. And if you don't like looking in the mirror, that's your problem, not his.
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nikkibabe
April 26, 2008, 1:59 p.m.Rev. Wright has said what black americans have endured and continue to do so. Also, he has done lot good things to the parish and community. For those who don't believe in him is like trying to wake up people who are pretending to be sleeping.
Sometime truth hurts. Ex. Bush can never admit his mistakes and blunders that has brought the country to its knees.
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simonsez
April 26, 2008, 2:56 p.m.It's not even about who is right or wrong, it's about votes and these kinds of issues turn voters off. Between this and his comment in San Fransisco, Obama has damaged his chances tremendously to win.
I don't think he can recover the voters he needs to win ...
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vor
April 26, 2008, 3:57 p.m.The bottom line is that racism is very much still evident in America. As a lily white Southern boy I am often privy to conversations those of ethnicity seldom hear. How many more times am I going to hear, "I ain't voting for no n-gg-r!" before the convention. I keep my views pretty much to myself at work so they assume I am in lockstep agreement. Because about 80% of the white males in my office appear to believe the same way. You would think we were still living in the 50's in the South. Shameful is what it is.
Where I live there is plenty of white trash. I pick up their beer cans by the roadside everyday in my neighborhood and I don't live in the ghetto by any means. These folks have no right to be condescending. Most are certainly nowhere near Obama's level of intelligence. But this is what we still are as a nation.
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NoWayMan
April 26, 2008, 4 p.m.great interview. one of the more interesting parts of the interview was Wright's military history. he was in the marines for 2 years and then served in the Navy for 4 years as a cardiopulmonary technician.
moyers then showed a photo of LBJ recovering from his gall bladder surgery when he was president. the operation was performed at Bethesda Naval. in the photo a young Wright is standing over LBJ, monitoring the president's heart rate. and just behind Wright was Bill Moyers, LBJ's then-press secretary.
interesting photo. sure didn't look like he hated America.
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stephen-johnson
April 26, 2008, 4:22 p.m.FTA:
BILL MOYERS: So, when Trinity Church says it is unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian, is it embracing a race-based theology?
REVEREND WRIGHT: No, it is not. It is embracing Christianity without giving up Africanity.
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stephen-johnson
April 26, 2008, 4:22 p.m.Moyers, of course, lets this answer go by without asking anything about the Black Liberation theology of James Cone, whom Wright credits as an inspiration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_theology#Jam...
""Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love"
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nostalgia
April 26, 2008, 4:28 p.m.I watched the ibterview last evening
This is what I found somewhat perplexing
"He's (Obama) a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. Those are two different worlds. I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician. But he did not disown me because I'm a pastor."
So according to Wright the Obama speech in Philadelphia was simply Obama responding as a politician
I thought that was a very interesting comment
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hyperbola
April 26, 2008, 5:35 p.m.Amen, Rev. Wright!
Do No Evil รข;; I am watching the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Bill Moyers' Journal on PBS. It's quite a revelation. He is wonderful, wise, and brave. He's speaking some harsh but necessary truths. If you have not seen this interview, you owe it to yourself and your country, if you are interested in justice, honesty, healing, and truth, to watch it all the way through.
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somaspecial
April 26, 2008, 9:01 p.m.By denying there is racism towards whites (usually referred to as "reverse racism"), you create more racism against blacks in the future.
The way it works is, a 15 year-old white boy goes in a book store and sees books with titles like, "Stupid White Men". He knows you can't make a book called, "Studid Black Men". And this mentality of it's okay for them but not for me hits him over and over again until he evolves (understandably) a victim mentality which shapes (wrongly) an attitude blaming black people in general.
To be on guard against racism means to be against it from every direction.
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ETproductions
April 27, 2008, 12:06 a.m.I watched the full interview, and finally had a chance to see where Dr. Wright was coming from. If all you know about this is from the MSM or Talk Radio loops, then you know NOTHING about it except a deliberate smear campaign. Did he say some things I disagree with. Yes. But believe me, he is no lunatic and he is also no hater of America. He hates some things that America has done. So do I. But this man is a true believer and a patriot.
At the end of the interview, my wife, who is an avid Hillary supporter, was mad at Obama for his speech distancing himself from Wright. He thought he threw a good man under the bus! Oh well, Obama can't catch any breaks with her.
But if all you ever care to know about your country comes from the MSM or talk radio, you will NEVER understand why she felt that way. Oh, and you will also never understand what's really going on behind your eyes.
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Mutainia
April 27, 2008, 2:38 a.m.Nice to see Wright changing his tune. Now IF Americans can believe he's ALways been this way, (and just taken out of context is all), Obama might have a chance. Of course, Obama DID mention that Wright is controvercial. I guess it depends on how much so in the hearts of the voters.
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tchef
April 27, 2008, 11:10 a.m.After reading the posts by the people who think he's a nut job I can clearly see that they still can't see past the sound bites. Nowhere does he preach hate in fact if you listen to what he's saying he is trying to lead his congregation away from hatred and revenge.
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